Religion: Fethardism

Ireland, which enriched the English language with the word boycott,* has
invented a refinement of the term. The new word: fethardism, meaning to
practice boycott along religious lines.

When, eight years ago, Sean Michael Cloney, 22, a Roman Catholic farmer,
married Sheila Kelly, 22, Protestant, in London, she made the usual
agreement imposed by the Catholic Church on mixed marriages: the
children would be brought up as Catholics. Sean brought Sheila back to
his big brown farmhouse called Dungulph Castle, a 600-year-old rebuilt
Norman mansion in the southern county of Wexford, two miles from the
village of Fethard-on-the-Sea (pop. 107).